AI-Driven Principal SRE — Remote & Cloud Reliability

Prairie Hills at Independence; Eden Prairie (MN); Hybride; USD 135 000 - 231 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Remote work options

Résumé du poste

UnitedHealth Group's Optum Financial is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to lead the evolution of our reliability platform. You will design AI-assisted workflows, improve observability, and drive automation across Azure and AWS environments.

You’ll mentor engineers, set reliability standards, and partner with cross-functional teams to accelerate incident detection, triage, recovery, and governance while maintaining security and compliance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles.
• 3+ years of experience in a principal, staff, lead, or senior technical leadership role.
• 5+ years of experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration, preferably Azure or AWS.
• 3+ years of experience with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar platforms.

Responsabilités

• Build AI-assisted SRE capabilities to accelerate incident detection, triage, mitigation, and recovery.
• Connect observability, deployment, runbook, ownership, and incident data into actionable context.
• Design human-in-the-loop workflows for safe mitigation, approvals, recovery verification, and auditability.
• Standardize OpenTelemetry, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability scorecards across critical services.
• Improve alert quality by reducing noise and clarifying customer impact.
• Lead resiliency testing, DR exercises, chaos engineering, and automated recovery validation.
• Mentor engineers and drive reliability improvements across Optum Financial.

Connaissances

Software engineering

Platform engineering

DevOps

SRE

Cloud (Azure/AWS)

Observability

AI-assisted automation

Leadership

Formation

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Outils

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Description du poste

UnitedHealth Group's Optum Financial is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to lead the evolution of our reliability platform. You will design AI-assisted workflows, improve observability, and drive automation across Azure and AWS environments.

You’ll mentor engineers, set reliability standards, and partner with cross-functional teams to accelerate incident detection, triage, recovery, and governance while maintaining security and compliance.